# Connecting a wallet

Your wallet is your account. Connecting takes one signature, costs nothing, and never grants spending permission.

There is no registration form, no password and no email address. You connect a wallet, sign one
message to prove it is yours, and that wallet is your account from then on.

## Signing in

- Open the panel. The dashboard prompts you to connect.

- Pick your wallet. Phantom, MetaMask, Solflare, Backpack, Trust, Coinbase, Rabby, OKX,
Ledger and anything else reachable through WalletConnect.

- Approve the signature. Your wallet shows a plain-text message naming your address and a
one-time code. Signing it is free and moves nothing.

The signature is proof of ownership, not permission. It is not a transaction, it costs no gas,
and it grants no allowance over your tokens or your liquidity.

## Why a signature is required

A wallet address is public information — anyone can read it off a block explorer. If signing in only
needed an address, anyone could type in yours and reach your packages, your campaigns and your
affiliate earnings.

The signature proves you hold the private key. The message names your address and includes a
single-use code that expires in five minutes, so a signature collected anywhere else cannot be replayed
here.

## What we never ask for

- A seed phrase or recovery phrase

- A private key

- A token approval or spending allowance

- Any permission over your liquidity

Nobody from DexTrending will ever ask for these, in any channel, for any reason. If someone claiming
to be us does, they are not us.

## Which wallet to connect

Connect the wallet you want to pay from. On EVM chains the payment is taken straight from
the connected wallet in one click, so an EVM wallet is the smooth path. Solana payments can be made
from the connected wallet too, or sent manually from an exchange.

The wallet you sign in with does not restrict which chain your campaign runs on. You can sign in
with an EVM wallet and still run a Solana campaign; you just pay for it differently.
Payment details are here.

## Sessions

A signed-in session lasts seven days, or one day of inactivity, whichever comes first. After that you
sign again. Signing out is immediate from the panel sidebar.

## Questions

**Does connecting my wallet cost gas?**

No. Signing in is a message signature, not a transaction. It costs nothing and moves no funds.

**Can DexTrending spend from my wallet after I connect?**

No. The signature proves ownership of the address and grants no allowance. The only transaction you ever approve is the single USDC transfer that pays for a package.

**I signed in with an EVM wallet but want a Solana campaign. Is that a problem?**

Not for the campaign, only for the payment route. You can run a Solana campaign either way; you would send the USDC manually rather than paying from the connected wallet in one click.

**Do you ever need my seed phrase?**

Never, under any circumstances. Anyone asking for one while claiming to be DexTrending is impersonating us.